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West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt receives my vote for Person of the Year. He has, with his efficient economic management, kept the rates of West Germany's inflation and unemployment...
...other matters with his main European allies on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Jan. 5 and 6. The meeting, which Carter described as "somewhat of a social affair," since wives will be along, will include French President Valéry Giscard ďEstaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and British Prime Minister James Callaghan. Though there will be no formal agenda and no final communiqué, a Carter-Brezhnev summit would give the conferees plenty to talk about...
...prime mover behind the latest plan for monetary union was West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was especially unhappy at the threats to his country's exports and the general economic instability caused by the slumping dollar. Schmidt enlisted the help of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to convince other E.C. leaders that it was time to act. He argued that "a zone of monetary stability" was necessary to revive lagging economic growth, slow inflation and make Europe immune from the dollar's malaise...
...book, Moynihan settles some scores with the man who more or less dumped him. While professing to admire Kissinger's energy, ambition and daring, Moynihan portrays him as a Machiavellian who never says what he means. He claims that Kissinger's former aide, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, once told him: "Henry does not lie because it is in his interest. He lies because it is in his nature." (Denying he made such a remark, Sonnenfeldt says that it "sounds so much like a Moynihan aphorism...
...surplus workers, even a shift of emphasis in the education system away from the humanities to technical training in new industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others are not yet capable of marketing and will not be able to produce in the next ten years," says Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The French hold the same view. "To get out of this bind," explains Industry Minister André Giraud, "we must resort to innovation, manufacturing goods that others don't produce or don't produce as well...